Oh, um, ah, yeah, uh, thanks. He stood there looking at me. My phone buzzed again. This time it was just a text (I found myself thinking Thank God). ...t read, You always wanted a kitty but I was allergic. Ill let you pet this one, I swear. ,) My head shot up, eyes darting toward the older gentleman who was clearly trying to figure me out. I said nothing and just started to pack up my things. I had nearly everything in my suitcase when my phone went off again. I immediately looked at it. It was. "It's all aheadof you. Your first kiss, your first prom dress and learning to wear highheels. You do want this, to be my daughter, don't you?" It's too quick. I'm..." I shook my head, hair fell across my eyes again."I'm a girl?" And very pretty too." I don't think I can do this."Isobel nods, she smiles warmly and reaches across the table to take myhand. "I understand completely. You need more time. Come and sit besideme."I can't refuse her, I slip around the table to the seat beside her andshe. We ate facing each other, and she’d peek up at me from her food from time to time to catch me watching her mildly.“What is it, Ann?” I asked quietly.She didn’t answer me for a long thirty seconds. Finally: “Doctor, about your experiment ... not the milking thing ... the other one...”“Yes?”“Your experiment was to change me, right? To change the way I think. To change the way I am. Right?”I couldn’t keep a small smile from my lips as I studied her. “Yes.”“And ... you think you’ve done that now,. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”--Mariah Carey “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life,”-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign “I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,”--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward. “Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the.